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Jeter's Next Big Swing

"I don't miss playings," says the retired Yankee, as the press-shy captain leads website The Players' Tribune, where DeAndre Jordan and Tiger Woods break news (sorry, ESPN) and backers are betting on a media home run

"We live in a society that is not very conscious of satire anymore," Neil Meron said. "They're very serious."

Three weeks after the Oscars, producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan are defending host Seth MacFarlane, who came under fire from critics, bloggers and special interest groups for a show they called intolerant.

"We were really, really proud of Seth MacFarlane. He did an amazing job," Meron told The Hollywood Reporter at the GLAAD awards in Manhattan on Saturday. "He did the job that we wanted him to do. Seth is irreverent -- he comments on things that happen in our culture, and that's what he did. We thought he did an extraordinary job."

"I spoke to somebody yesterday, and they were disappointed that he didn't go further," Zadan added. "So you can't really gauge; somebody thinks it's too much, some people think its just enough ... he brought in the youngest demos that the Oscars have ever had."

Meron echoed that point.

"People have complained for years and years that the Oscars were becoming irrelevant. And I think what we did this year is to really make them part of the cultural conversation, and I think that's the important part that people will take away."